Edward Sheldon Stewart ’28

Sheldon Stewart, a retired lawyer in NYC, died Jan. 21, 1997, after a long illness. He was in the Class of '27 at Princeton but received his BA degree in 1928.

He prepared at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., and at Princeton he was a member of Dial Lodge and majored in modern languages. He went to Harvard Law School, graduating in 1931.

He joined the law firm of Stewart & Shearer, a firm founded by his father. In 1952 this firm merged into Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, where he became head of the firm's trust and estates department. He retired in 1976. He served as counsel to the United States Trust Co. of NYC and to the brokerage firm of Francis I. Dupont & Co. He was also a board member, counsel, and treasurer of the Hospital for Special Surgery.

Sheldon's marriages, to Helen Carmichael and Jeannette Lieblich, ended in divorce. In 1953 he married Shirley Marlin, who survives. Helen was the mother of Helen and Edward Sheldon Jr., who died in Oct. 1996; Jeannette was the mother of Sheldon J.; Shirley is the mother of a son, Anthony, and a daughter, Francesca '81, who is married to Paul T. Cohn '78. There are seven grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. His friends in '27 as well as those in '28 will miss him. The class extends its sympathy to Shirley and the family.

The Class of 1928